Bug #55032 [Opn->Dup]: Treating null, boolean and numbers as arrays does not trigger an error

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55032&edit=1 ID: 55032 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: cagret at gmail dot com Summary: Treating null, boolean and numbers as arrays does not trigger an error -Status: Open +Status: Duplicate Type: Bug Package: Variables related Operating System: Linux, Windows PHP Version: 5.3.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is intended behaviour, per bug #41195. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-13 19:14:44] cagret at gmail dot com If implementing it is a performance problem (can't think of any other reason why it still hasn't been fixed), then you could at least give us an option, for example a php.ini option "check_types" that would be checking for such error. That would allow us to enable this option on Developer machines during testings and hopefully we would catch and fix all of these errors before uploading the code to the Production machine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-11 02:19:47] cagret at gmail dot com Description: ------------ This bug is really annoying and generates many headeaches to millions of php developers. It's really hard to detect this bug sometimes, and that is because we have so much faith in PHP and we think that it's not possible that php would allow us to write such a nonsensical code and not throw an error, after all didn't we set the most strict error reporting you allow us to set? This example code should be self explanatory: <?php error_reporting(-1); // The most strict error reporting. $n = null; echo $n[12]; // That should generate at least a E_NOTICE or E_STRICT warning. $f = false; echo $f[12]; // No error. $t = true; echo $t[12]; // No error, again. $a = 4; echo $a[12]; // Oh really, again no error? What a surprise! $a = 4.44; echo $a[12]; // And what do you think?! Guess! No error! ?> Please fix it ASAP. Thank you for your time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55032&edit=1